Roy Nelson's UFC career on hold due to previous contract with Roy Jones Jr.

After some speculation about Roy Nelson potentially fighting Brock Lesnar, or Frank Mir, or even his previous opponent Shane Carwin, will all be on hold.

In fact, his entire UFC career altogether will be put on hold.

Following his scratched heavyweight bout against the aforementioned Carwin at UFC 125, which was to serve as the evening’s co-main event, Nelson had been rumored with a multitude of different opponents. However, some recent events have surfaced indicating that “Big Country” may be heading elsewhere in his career.

Back with former world boxing champion, Roy Jones Jr.

The boxing legend and MMA enthusiast claims to still have the season 10 winner of “The Ultimate Fighter” under wraps with his own show. Jones began Square Ring Promotions and in March of 2009 but together a mix of boxing and mixed martial arts on one night of fights, cleverly titled “March Badness”, where Nelson competed against former UFC title challenger Jeff Monson, losing by unanimous decision.

Nelson gave everyone the impression that it was a “one and done” type of deal, especially when he signed on to the popular reality show and later signed a fighting contract with the worlds leading MMA promotion, the UFC.

“These guys go out and sign with these rinky-dink little promotion companies and sign these bad contracts, and let’s just say Roy Nelson is involved in a bad contract right now that he had before”, said White following the UFC 122 in Oberhausen, Germany last Saturday.

“There’s a couple of different organizations out there that do it.”

“There’s organizations that are locking these guys up to the old-school boxing contracts. The contracts that King and those guys were doing back in the 60s, 70s and 80s where they have options on top of their options – so your contract never ends with these guys.

“These are the kinds of contracts that some of these guys are signing in these other organizations out there that some of these MMA websites go, ‘Oh, stick up for these guys, they’re the small guys.’ The small guys are the guys that are really [expletive] the fighters.”

Until his contract issues subside, there’s no telling when the Renzo Gracie black belt will return to the octagon.

So, MMA peeps, what do you make of the recent news? Is it a publicity stunt in part of Jones, possibly picking some attention to gear up for a second show? Sound off in the comment section below.

Thanks to MiddleEasy.com for the transcribe and the find.